Making a wood brick floor for our blacksmith shop 

Best add yet. If you ever add subtitles to old videos let us know. Probably not enough time for this though

Tappa, tappa, tappa!

Dobra robota. Good job.

Тяжело, наверное, было пилить?

Felicitaciónes muy buen trabajo.!!!!

So true!!!

You're right, dude! And one more thing. Everybody burn wood. Everybody!

With sand you shoveled from a stream, and stones you carried from the forest, and hewed to shape.

This guys ideas + know how is awesome - definite respect! Just begging the question... So - Battery Powered tools would have cut this job down by how much %? What do you think? 50, 60, 70, 80%?

@@ithinkthonkthunk5333 He'd have to walk to the nearest town to recharge the batteries. I think it's about 40 miles. :)

Yes!!

I second that

B as by the sound of birds or an occasional monkey sound

I agree no need for music when awesome is being performed

My question is. How this floor keeps the level? I mean. doesn't the bricks move?

@@emmanuelmartin2310 As he's installed them, they have a little give to them. I'm also guessing that he's doing it traditionally. As for when they were used in industry, predominantly in toolroom applications, they were set on a concrete floor. I've been in a couple of shops that had them, and the blocks were 4"~6" tall. To set up a a machine, they just pulled up the appropriate number of blocks and and used the leveling pads/ assemblies on the slab under them, or put down steel blocks to replace them. That's the way it was explained to me. Industry's gone away from this type of flooring for a lot of reasons, one of the biggest being safety. They soak up oil like a sponge, making them both slip and fire hazzards at the same time. They're also expensive up front for the wood; in the machine trades, oak or hard maple were usually the preferred types of wood, and those are slow growing species, versus softwoods like pine.

@@7891ph thanks for the answer :D

Plus they suck up a lot oil

The main advantage is that kind of floor does not hurt your joints back and feet when you walk stand on it every day for long hours. I you ever walk on one its like no other.

wow, hard to imagine the concrete was cheaper? Maybe it was a labor cost issue? Or they did not find skilled labor who knew how to handle the job? I would always find wood to be much cheaper and better than concrete...

@@MrChickadee It was an issue of speed. They had to get that shop back in service as quickly as possible. Those blocks would have taken for ever. The plant was torn down in 2014 and 15 and replaced by a new modern plant.

Same here!

Sad but cool! All of the factories I've worked in have had concrete floors.

I've seen them bubble as well, it's pretty wild to see it. It reminded me of a Salvador Dali painting!

They would probably be easier on your feet than a concrete floor too

I worked in a ford stamping plant. The wood floor was used to cut down on noise and was easy and cheep to repair.

Joyce Thomas in trenton to

I live in and grew up in Hudson and remember the terex plant there. It’s now jo Ann’s on terex rd. Non the less. This is cool to see your comment on here. Small world it can be. My uncle worked there many moons ago.

We have these floor covering our entire ranch home in the mountains (2,700 sqft) however, we choose a size proportionate to our space . Size is 12 x 6 .

I am from Irkutsk, Siberia. A century and a half ago city center streets were paved with larch blocks. Pretty the same technology as Mr.Chikadee used and as you mentioned. It seems that it was a kind of standard technique for that times

I`ve seen the same thing in a lot of the old London streets. Apparently they are all cedar blocks and were felled and brought over from Australia.

Really cool, thanks for sharing. Do you remember how thick were the blocks?

This smallish forge shop building looked like a workload, I can't even imagine hand cut wood bricks over 13 acres of flooring. Sounds like a dream to have, but a nightmare to do. Maybe process the logs on a mill to square/rectangular beams, then crosscut the bricks from there?

J F I think this might be my favorite comment ever.

If course you wouldn’t because he would offer you perfect pieces of Swiss cheese to snack on and you be like his side kick and customers would come in and say “hi” to the smith and then “hey ya Mousey! (Or whatever the hell your name is) to you and you’d wink at them like you own the joint.

What a strange and wholesome comment. Thank you. lol

@@bozolito108 😂😂😂

I think I found a different video of you in the shop after hours, JF, under “house-proud mouse”!!

Wow, you were at Pearl Harbor in the 1880's !! :-D :-D :-D

I’d love to see that! You must post a video when you’re done.

He did this with green wood so if the wood gets wet, ideally the floor won't buckle, as it's already as large as it'll ever get.

Me too.

I swerved a machinist apprenticeship at Black & Decker in the early 1970's and this is the kind of floor we had in the shop. We loved it.

The Ford Plant in Sharonville Ohio had floors like these up until a few years ago. I heard they made for lovely bonfires at some people homes since they had been there a long time, soaking up oil.

I worked for Illinois Tool Works as an Apprentice Machine Builder in 1963, they had that wood floor throughout the whole shop. Lathes, mills, grinders, it was comfortable to work on. And no damaged parts if you had an "oopsees".

Interesting. I know the word "burnish" can mean polish--what does it mean in this usage? Thank you.

I don't think the torching/burning has any role in fireproofing them. Josh has explained that it makes the wood less palatable to wood eating insects.

The place my father worked, Acklin Stamping Co in Toledo had creosoted wooden blocks on the floor. A really good floor I'll tell you. Also there were some streets of those blocks. The only problem was when it rained, a lot of them would float away.

@@idontthinkso666 From what I have experienced I got the impression that it helps to torch the wood against smaller embers and such, which is mostly what a smithy's floor is going to see. But you also have a very good point about the insects.

Philly also has a couple of small streets where the paving is done in wood blocks

Put the torch to 'em, makes them harder. ☺

This thicker one seems to be a good isolant as well.

Idc who you are that's funny hahaha

Why, when you have a perfectly good newish pickup truck to shovel it into

thats funny!

Nothing no time left after RU-vid

That's one thing to never have on the "honey do" list.

What you can do after watching the right RU-vid.

@@paulbadger6336 yup